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Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a rousing defense of scientific principles in his characteristic brash way during his Purdue Northwest Sinai Forum presentation Sunday.

His talk gathered what PNW Sinai Forum Executive Director Leslie Plesac said was the largest group of high school and college students in recent memory for the lecture series.

“There’s a growing anti-intellectual strain in this society,” warned the astrophysicist, himself a star science communicator as well as director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

“If you think the world is flat and you have influence over others,” he said, that’s when bad science becomes dangerous.

Tyson took a jab at people who believe the Earth is flat, includin

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